“surgeon's”

The following 2 entries include the term surgeon's.

surgeon's knot

noun

: a reef knot in which the first knot has two turns see knot illustration

surgeon's agaric

noun

: a preparation in the form of a powder or thick feltlike sheets of an agaric (Fomes fomentarius) formerly used as a hemostatic


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